March 4, 2008, Tuesday

Imagine you're an impressionable kid out of the University of Maryland in the early 1980's, looking for friends with similar interests at your new job. You're reliable, responsible and mature for 22. Your new friends are, well, not quite there...

April 11, 1999, Sunday

When No. 8 from the University of Alabama was introduced last night at Madison Square Garden, the smattering of boos was drowned out by the raucous applause. So much for disgust and indignation. Latrell Sprewell, back from basketball purgatory after...

January 28, 1999, Thursday

In announcing his retirement yesterday, the Knicks' Buck Williams joked about how he will soon sit down with his son, Julian, and brag about how remarkable he was on the basketball court. ''I guess tomorrow, I'll start lying to my oldest son...

January 28, 1999, Thursday

Buck Williams is neither gloating nor asking for an apology from his peers. But three years after the former union president helped negotiate a deal with the owners -- a deal that was widely ridiculed by National Basketball Association players for...

April 12, 1998, Sunday

Buck Williams stood in the hallway outside the gymnasium, explaining the mental obstacles that go with returning from an injury. And just a few feet away, Patrick Ewing, more convinced than any doctor that he could return, finally succumbed to...

April 11, 1998, Saturday

Larry Johnson is scheduled to return and Buck Williams may play, too, when the Knicks face the Orlando Magic tonight at the Orlando Arena. At least, they are healthier. But whether New York can stall its road woes is another question. The Knicks...

February 13, 1998, Friday

THE introduction of Keith Van Horn to the Knicks and the intensification of a long-dormant basketball rivalry was excellent news for everyone except the man who started at center last night for the team from the New York side of the Lincoln Tunnel....

Charles Oakley had just shrugged on his blue checkered suit and donned his matching driver's cap. Soon, the coolest cat in a hat was ready to leave the Knicks' locker room after their victory over Phoenix on Saturday night, ambling past the circle of...